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i only buy old games at this point and if i buy a newer game it's only when it's gone on sale. i just don't have enough time to play everything i wanna play anyways, so i can easily just wait out prices to drop. i have a huge back catalogue at this point so i probably won't even get nintendo's next system. my switch is more or less a minecraft machine at this point (my family and i all play on a realm together) and if i play something single player it's typically on my wii u or gba

@Dom_31 it’s in a cherish ball but yeah, i don’t know why they do events like this especially one where you need to go get a code. if it were just a single code every one can use it’s no big deal but making us go to gamestop for a mimikyu that doesn’t even have a move it doesnt normally learn or something is crazy

The “From Nintendo’s point of view” part doesn’t really belong here as it doesn’t make the case from the consumer’s perspective on why BC is expendable since this only benefits Nintendo

seems low to me tbh. they’ve been released and rereleased a lot and on pretty huge selling consoles like every sony console and the ds and even the switch can play something like 12 of the mainline entries. the number of entries also is high.

@hel105 i ordered it too. ffvi is my favorite game and even though i own it multiple ways, i just had to have this in physical. already have a snes cart, gba cart, hacked my wii for the vc version (i was way too late to the owning a wii party) and i ofc have a snes classic. i also have the iOS version, but we don't talk about those

i ordered the physical from play asia. final fantasy vi in particular is too important for me to have passed it up, even though i already have most other versions (ff3 snes, ffvi advance, wii virtual console, old iOS version)

at least the multiplayer is single cart but that's too expensive

@DiamondJim right? like it was very inexpensive but also if you’re using it then you spent minimum $80 on games and likely much more so to put this feature behind a paywall with a timer is kinda nuts. hopefully they keep it open forever but i don’t think they will. i give it about 5 years. this is one of the many reasons i’ve decided to play only gen v and earlier since there’s no issues with transfering my mons

I can't really think of any one specific thing other than a vague sort of issue I have with LoZ games, which is that it tends not to be the puzzles themselves that get me but just little random things that aren't really even puzzles. For a recent example, in Link's Awakening I had to move that weathercock to wake up that blue rooster. I knew I had to move it so I tried many things, playing the ocarina near it, grabbing it, shooting it, bombing it. Turns out you just have to move into it, D-pad only, no grabbing.

i thought i'd be more excited by this, but pretty much any of the games i'd want i already have on either 3DS or Wii U (or possibly both in some cases since I'm a 3DS ambassador and I may have double dipped). Nice for the people who don't have those systems ig. Still not gonna pay for the premium on that expansion pack

@SpaceboyScreams this could also be solved by making the dock have its own internals so that it runs the games better.. the problem then becomes cost vs. adoption. the current dock which does almost nothing costs $80 new on its own

@KingMike sorry for the lateness of my reply. in gen II, whether or not a pokémon was shiny was determined by DVs (precursor to the gen III and up’s IV system). breeding passes on some DVs from the parents and so if you have one shiny parent, you can reduce the odds to 1/64 for any eggs to be shiny (there may be some exceptions but it’s been a while since i exploited this). obviously having a shiny ditto can give u a guaranteed parent with the desired DVs. now there’s a separate exploit one can do to get that shiny ditto, using the ability to send the red gyarados you get during the story back to gen I, and having the move Mimic, you can encounter a wild ditto, have it transform into and then have it use Mimic on your red gyarados it’ll copy its DVs and keep those DVs after it’s caught so that when it’s sent up to gen II it’ll be shiny. furthermore it’s obscenely easy to clone pokémon in gen II. i did this to send up boxes of cloned shinies and GTS them to complete my pokedex. did this in both gen VII and VIII but i dont really play the newer gens anymore so i probably won’t take it any further

@novasoup not necessarily hacked (tho it's also not out of the question), because even tho it's rare, it can then be spread pretty much infinitely. imagine how many shinies there would be if shininess could just be passed on by being in the party with another shiny

Pushmo World, for some reason this is a Wii U exclusive, while the franchise has 3 entries on the 3DS and... that's it. No ports to Switch or anywhere else. I'd get the original Xenoblade Chronicles as well on the Wii U eShop as it's cheap and you can play it on just the Gamepad (of course provided you're close enough to the console). Great way to play this game, and even tho the definitive edition exists I like playing games in their original form.

first starter: bulbasaur (pokémon blue)
favorite starter: snivy
favorite pokémon: phanpy. i don’t even particularly like ground types and i’ve never even used one on my team, but the first time i saw it in heartgold i instantly fell in love with it
honorable mentions: mew, victini, dunsparce, vulpix, murkrow, whimsicott, sableye, zoroark

looks like gen 1 pokemon crossed with super paper mario. don't really dig the gameplay or the music though

@Royalblues i’m in group B which means I won’t get mine until the 4th quarter. then there’s group C which don’t get theirs until next year (i believe in 1Q)

@iLikeUrAttitude it's in chronological order

not getting a wii u at launch. it’s now my favorite console but i didnt get one until like 2015

went with the Wii U/3DS altho i prefer the GBA and DS over the 3DS, the Wii U is my favorite console hardware by far and the software libraries for both systems are outstanding especially when u factor in their bc with WiiDS and their robust Virtual Console libraries. While the Switch had a ton of great software, the hardware just doesn’t do it for me; I’ll take the comfort of the Wii U gamepad over the Switch in portable mode and the Wii U Pro controller/Wiimote/Classic Controller/SNES mini controller options over any of the Switch’s controller options while also appreciating the 3DS’s ability to be pocketed over.. not being able to do that with a Switch

it really depends series to series. for something like final fantasy, there’s many right answers for where to start (as well as many wrong answers). you could go with the original especially one of the remakes of it and there’s plenty of options including the recent pixel remaster (that goes for all the original six games really tho i’d say only IV and VI are good starting points from those games). VII and IX and X are also good starting points. then there’s a series like GTA where there’s not much point in playing the older ones (and at this point V is no spring chicken itself) especially since they’ve not had any true remasters that actually improve them

@Bret i think flying or ground would work ok among physical types

Dragon is the only "special" type that hasn't gotten an Eeveelution (pretty sure everyone agrees Fairy would have been special), and i really doubt they'd go with Ghost since that implies you've killed your Eevee, but who knows

have a preordered launch day switch which is still running fine altho helped by the fact that i’ve hardly touched it in the last few years due to getting a switch lite and spending more time on my systems that are actually pocketable so mostly the kids use it these days and that competes with an xbone and ps4 plus their phones. i’ve actually got drift on three of the four sets of joy con and i jist got two pairs back from being repaired and waiting on the other two

@dustinprewitt if you buy it you should be able to still download it past the march 2023 expiration date, but who knows for how long. definitely gives you some time to invest in some sort of hard drive

the superfx of the switch

@invictus4000 no space? a microSD card that you will never fill all the way up on a 3DS will cost at most what? $20?

game looks very pretty, idk how much i'd like the combat system tho

"we'll continue improving the service... by adding the games every one already knows we're adding and nothing further"

i'm gonna wait for reviews and a sale/price drop. $60 is way too much though I'm sure the games aren't super cheap to sell if they're keeping all that licensed music in it plus if they still have to pay like voice actors n such. i'll hopefully grab the physical for around $30

so we can get both if we only have one version of it?

@BaronMunchausen gba also has one but it came out i think the same day as san andreas (iirc) so it poofed out of collective memory. haven’t played that one but i remember cw being a lot of fun

@nhSnork didn't the original XBox ports allow a custom station?

@PickledKong lol it’s more that i dont have a lot of time at home. but i work in a factory and i change shifts every week so when im working overnight or in the evening there’s nobody around and if i’m not particularly busy i spend time on twitter and youtube and then gaming on my gba sp or sometimes my ds lite

i'm really interested in this, but will wait for some more reviews and updates to the software before i jump in. the price is nice if nothing else than to just easily play on a bigger screen at home and then take my games with me to work (which is how I play roughly 85-95% of the time.. maybe this can push it closer to 70%). definitely beats dropping $300 on a gamecube with gameboy player. and that can't even back up my saves.

@Kidfunkadelic83 using a super nt and a super gameboy i booted up a couple games on i think a 60” 4k tv (outputting 1080p) and it looked fine

starting last year i now only collect to play games. i guess i kinda always have but before i was a little less choosy with it especially digital games. now i buy only physical games and only for certain systems.. mostly snes, gba, ds and wii for now. i can't play any other way. if i have a system with 50 games digitally available to me at any time i play each game for a few minutes and then stop. with my physical collection, especially the handhelds, i pop a cartridge in and just play that until i beat it. it's more fun and fulfilling to do things this way. it's really annoying how much more expensive games from these systems have gotten but i just try to be picky and find good deals where i can.. and since i'm not collecting as an investment or for completeness sake, i pretty much just pick up loose carts of games i know i'm gonna play

what is toxel doing to that poor pumpkin?

got my alarms set, but i wasn't able to get one last time. saw ppl saying that they went up a few minutes before the :00 so i'ma be ready this time

Nintendo Wii®️ 3

i’ve never run into a shiny at full odds (1 per 8,192) ever and i’ve put in literally 1000s of hours (altho a lot of those hours belong to gen 6 and up which never have those odds). the one time i did get a shiny at full odds was while shiny hunting lugia in silver on 3DS virtual console. pretty proud of that tho i didnt count how many resets it took. i have many other shinies i’ve gotten from other methods such as using the ditto trick to get 1/64 odds on gen 2 or some from happenstance for example IV breeding a hawlucha when one popped up (luckily with its color scheme it’s super hard to miss) i’ve also gotten a spinda and caterpie while EV training and some shinies i’ve gotten from ultra wormholes or the friend safari

>After all, at the time of its release the world hadn’t seen a new, traditional 2D Mario title since 1990’s seminal Super Mario World (though it came to NA in 1991 and EU in 1992)

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: Am I a joke to you?

@SwitchForce apple products generally hold their value pretty well

i started buying gba games because i wanted to play with real hardware. i also like the fact that it keeps me focused on one game at a time (especially cause most of the time i have to play is during downtime at work and in those instances i only have a single cartridge with me). if i wanted something with all the gba games on it i’d much rather spend half as much and get something like a pocketgo or other dedicated emulation system

Air Fortress is deserving a spot IMO

feel like borderlands has always been $25 on these sales. guess i’ll finally grab it

for some reason i only have a problem when using an xbox controller at keeping the buttons straight. playstation’s never bothers me because while i still in my head call the “cross” an X, i think of it as the shape rather than the letter since all the rest are shapes (well circle could be O i suppose...)

been collecting gba games and so far the rpgs i have:

final fantasy i&ii dawn of souls
final fantasy v advance
final fantasy vi advance
final fantasy tactics advance
golden sun
golden sun the lost age
pokémon leafgreen
pokémon emerald
lunar legend
phantasy star collection
sword of mana
breath of fire

@nessisonett ffv didnt come to the west until playstation, gba and mobile releases tho

i was so glad when they finally released the orange and purple set as those are my two favorite colors. just wish the orange was the left one